Dmitry Balandin of Kazakhstan stole up in an outside lane to snatch a shock victory in the men’s 200 metres breaststroke on Wednesday Aug 10,2016 as the Central Asian country grabbed two Olympic gold medals in the space of an hour.
Kazakhstan's Dmitry Balandin, swimming in lane eight after qualifying as the slowest finallist, touched the wall in two minutes, 7.46 seconds, just 0.07 seconds ahead of Josh Prenot of the United States.
Russia’s Anton Chupkov took the bronze in lane seven, with 0.24 seconds separating the top three.
Kazakhstan, who lost five Olympic titles from 2008 and 2012 through retrospective doping positives, had earlier won their first gold of the 2016 Games when Nijat Rahimov broke the clean and jerk world record in the men’s 77kg weightlifting
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